Muslims do not feel valued in Starmer’s Labour
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The Labour Muslim Network has surveyed elected Muslim representatives and their conclusions should worry Labour’s leadership. Below are some statistics with a majority feeling Muslims were badly represented and a very high percentage dissatisfied with the government’s approach to what is happening in Gaza and 97% wanting recognition of a Palestinian State.
One Muslim Labour MP ssaid “There’s often a sense of unease about what I might say or think, especially regarding issues like Palestine. It sometimes feels like I’m being scrutinised through a different lens … that level of suspicion is isolating.”
The Labour Party claim to welcome diversity and to take complaints seriously, but has anything changed since the sidelining of the Forde Report, for example?
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This article was originally published by Hyphen on Thu 5 Jun 2025. Read the original here.
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“It’s not a Labour party the workers need. It’s a revolutionary party pledged to overthrow the capitalist class in the only way it can be done by putting up barricades and taking over factories by force. There is no other way”
James Connolly
Dump Labour.
The Forde report observed that there was less antisemitism in the Corbyn led Labour party than in the general population. However there was Islamophobia. The report has been suppressed as came to the wrong conclusion.
For years, Labour has taken the Muslim vote for granted.
In fact, Labour has taken for granted the votes of all working class people and has abused our historic loyalty.
At the last general election, I left the Labour Party after 24 years membership (24 wasted years !).
I joined George Galloway’s Workers Party and was an agent for one of the Party’s candidates.
In the aggregate of GE votes, the Workers Party was the 6th largest vote.
Many of those votes were Muslim votes.
Labour continues to abuse and take for granted its Muslim vote.
Seeing that Labour has a thing for killing Muslims – think Iraq and Afghanistan – why would any Muslims give them support ? Didn’t Labour once endorse virginity testing on South Asian women too at one point ? You don’t really get more racist than Labour, so not sure why any ethnic minorities would endorse them.